Picture Day is coming! Picture Day at SVMS is scheduled for WEDNESDAY, 9/11/19. Order forms should have gone home with your child. To preorder online, visit, christmascitystudio.com, click VIEW/ORDER, then click PREPAY under the school pictures heading. Enter code SVMS19. If you have any questions you can direct them to Customerservice@christmascitystudio.com or call either of the following numbers 610-691-2109 or 888-962-7289.

Following seven months of meetings, discussions, and action planning on the part of the Comprehensive Planning Committee, the 2019-2022 Comprehensive District Level Plan is ready for public review. Please click the title above for the link to the Comprehensive Plan. This document outlines our mission, vision, shared values, and action/implementation steps for the next three years. We are excited to present the Plan to the Saucon Valley community and encourage you to review the Plan at your leisure and provide feedback to Assistant Superintendent, Dr. Kristine Rosenberger at kristine.rosenberger@svpanthers.org or Superintedent, Dr. Craig Butler at craig.butler@svpanthers.org

The Saucon Valley School District is dedicated to an effective process for placing students on the appropriate trajectory for mathematics instruction through the middle school level. To this end, the Math Curriculum Renewal Team has created a process to ensure all students will master key concepts and practices in order to develop and utilize their mathematical competence during their middle school years. Click on the red headline above to access further information.

Safety is one of our district’s top priorities and to help safeguard our school community, we’ve taken an important step! The SVSD community now utilizes SafeSchools Alert, a tip reporting service that allows students, staff, and parents to submit safety concerns to our administration four different ways: Phone, Text, Email or Website. You and your child can easily report tips on bullying, harassment, drugs, vandalism or any safety issue you're concerned about. Every tip SafeSchools Alert receives about our district is immediately logged in the system and our administration is notified so that they can investigate and take appropriate action. Tips may also be submitted anonymously. Click the red headline above for info on accessing it.

District protocol dictates that when incidents of bullying, name calling and insensitive remarks are reported to administration, they are investigated and handled as the specific situation dictates. In response to such incidents over the past several years, administrators have spoken with all students involved, parents and teachers and have then met with students and others as appropriate to discuss the behavior and consequences. Often counselors are involved as well to process through the situation with the students and to educate the students about the hurtfulness of their words. Additionally, there have been situations where the counselors have delivered classroom lessons and/or have met with small groups of students.

The Saucon Valley School Directors and Administration are committed to working with our community to ensure that our schools are places of acceptance and inclusion. We believe that every student needs to feel welcome and part of our district. We will be developing a plan with all stakeholders that will address the concerns that have been raised in the past months. Students, parents, staff, school directors and community members are integral to making this commitment a success. We believe that our efforts will reflect the true spirit of our community as we move our district to be a place where all our students are valued for their unique contribution to our schools.

Persons without clearances will be unable to participate in chaperoning any activity or volunteering in the classroom. Clearances are required to ensure the safety of all students. All K-12 Parents/Adults that participate with classes/sports teams/groups for field trips/competitions/trips that leave school grounds will need the following current clearances: (1) FBI Federal Criminal History Record, (2) PA State Police Request for Criminal Record Check, and (3) PA Child Abuse. In addition a Volunteer Certification form will be needed. If you can check off the two boxes on the form you will NOT need to complete the FBI Fingerprint Criminal History Record Check. *You can find the clearances under the employment section of our website.